Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Popular Edition

0

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

With Text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange

Contributor

Griset, Ernest Henry

Date

2016-02-16T15:08:38Z

'2016-01

1893?

Date Available

2016-02-16T15:08:38Z

Date Issued

1893?

Abstract

en_US I thought I was buying a second copy of a book I already had found. Wrong again! This book is, it is true, remarkably similar to one purchased in August of 2003 from Ross Old Books & Prints, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. There are clear differences. This book has gilt on its title on the cover, whereas that book did not. This book adds "Ney York" on the title-page and on the final page of the book. It also adds a slipsheet between the frontispiece and the title-page. It removes the date from the title-page; it also removes the marker from Sauvage Leon on the verso of the title-page. This book has a number -- a date? -- of 10-88, whereas that book had 11.92. Bibliographers will enjoy the close comparison. This book was sold by Widdison in Sheffield. The advertisements at the end of the book have changed. My sense is that some series have grown, and some have changed. This copy was sold by Widdison in Sheffield. It may help some to include comments from the edition clearly marked by its date of publication, 1893.. This is a nice book in very good condition! Its 422 pages, including an AI at the end, are very compact. The printing of Griset's illustrations, with the exception of the dark "The Owl and Grasshopper" frontispiece, is bright and exact. Another special feature of this edition is the lovely gold-embossed illustration of WC on the green cloth cover. The usual note at the end of the preface mentions that one-hundred-and-thirty fables have been added to those in the first and second editions. There are some fifteen pages of advertisements for Cassell's books at the back. The extra copy, in less good condition, has red cloth on its cover, with the same embossed illustration of WC. Its first regular illustration--of two frogs--is garishly painted.

Identifier

en_US 10593 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84587

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

Cassell & Company

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5R9 1893c

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

Book, Whole